Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness: Four Short Novels: The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away, Prize Stock, Teach Us to Outgrow Our 邓小平 就連生存都覺得艱困、宛如末世來臨前的最後時光，

就連生存都覺得艱困、宛如末世來臨前的最後時光，

corpus nullius (in denying ownership of one’s personhood in citizens’ data collected through biometric identification)

這本書以生動的敘事與深度視角，帶領讀者穿越東南亞數千年的歷史與多元文化。

is in his late twenties

English translation © Harper & Row

Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness: Four Short Novels: The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away, Prize Stock, Teach Us to Outgrow Our 邓小平 就連生存都覺得艱困、宛如末世來臨前的最後時光，These four novels display Oes passionate and original vision. Oe was ten when American jeeps first drove into the mountain village where he lived, and his literary work reveals the tension and ambiguity forged by the collapse of values of his childhood on the one hand and the confrontation with American writers on the other. The earliest of his novels included here, Prize Stock, reveals the strange relationship between a Japanese boy and a captured